Former animator Georgia Cano’s class-action suit filed Tuesday is the second in two weeks over alleged anti-poaching policies at major animation houses.

It targets many of the same defendants as former VFX worker RobertNitsch Jr.’s lawsuit—including Sony, Dreamworks and Disney’s Pixar and Lucasfilm divisions—claiming they forged non-competitive hiring agreements that “metastasized over the years into an industry-wide wage-fixing cartel.” The difference is, while Nitsch’s proposed class covers animators employed by the studios since 2004, Cano wants to represent those like herself who’d been hired before 2004.

Her lawsuit is one of several cases to spring from a 2010 lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice against Pixar, Lucasfilm and technology companies including Google, Apple and Adobe. That litigation ended when the companies agreed not to enforce anti-poaching agreements for five years.

Several class-action lawsuits followed. A 2011 litigation led to a $9-million settlement for Pixar and Lucasfilm, but the case remains in progress for the other defendants (whose attempt at a $325-million settlement was recently shot down because U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh decided it wasn’t enough). Nitsch’s complaint claims to exclude the 2011 case’s class, but it’s unclear how his lawsuit presents much that’s new.

Now comes Cano’s complaint. The animator, whose recent credits include Skyfall and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Part 2, covers the same ground in her lawsuit as Nitsch does, with much of the same evidence—including declarations from George Lucas that the defendants wanted to “keep the industry out of a “normal industrial competitive situation” and Pixar and Walt Disney Animation president Ed Catmull that “We have avoided wars…because all of the companies up here – Pixar, ILM [Lucasfilm], Dreamworks, and couple of smaller places – have conscientiously avoided raiding each other.”

But her proposed class of pre-2004 employees includes over 50,000 current or former animators, she estimates (and her suit names one additional defendant, the smaller studio Blue Sky, though she never worked there). If her lawsuit goes forward, the studios could face anti-poaching litigation from several angles.

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